Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

As you can see I have been doing some work on the Bringing A Little Light To The World™ Flash-Light™. The Flash-Light™ is also discussed at this update. The case holds two AA batteries – good for 100 hours of on time or 10 years of flashing. The case was 3D printed at Rockford Makers…

( About 21 minutes ) If things go as they estimate, EVs (electric vehicles) will be a very big deal by 2025. Is that possible? Yes. Likely? Maybe. A question I had was: Can the electrical grid handle these new loads coming on line? Probably – if the roll out speed is not too fast.…

( About 29 minutes ) Archeology. Floods. Catastrophe. “Climate change” is more scientific group think. Some photonics questions What are the photon absorption bands of CO2? What are the photon absorption bands of water vapor? What is the overlap? What does it mean?

Illinois Governor elect J.B. Pritzker has a new motto. “Beat Michigan” Illinois Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker is making legalizing marijuana one of his top priorities. Pritzker says he’s already been working out the details with legislators. “There’s an opportunity for us to be the first state in the Midwest to make it available, and so I…

The following headline is a sad reminder of inexorable, inevitable reality: For first time, Pearl Harbor remembrance takes place without a single USS Arizona survivor present  Along with the recent death of George H.W. Bush, it’s another reminder that we are rapidly losing the last of the World War II generation. My parents’ generation, and all…

By now you may have heard about President Trump awarding Miriam Adelson the Medal of Freedom. “A medical doctor, Miriam has dedicated her life to fighting addiction, something we’re all becoming all too familiar with,” Trump said at one point. The president’s brother Fred died young because of his alcoholism. Maybe the President also had…

Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts who will soon become the Chairman of the House Rules Committee had this to say. “This just seems like common-sense stuff,” McGovern said. “Especially on the issue of medical marijuana — people who are opposed to that are just on the wrong side of public opinion, overwhelmingly. It’d be nice…

The allegations of vote fraud in Florida and Arizona are nothing but a right wing conspiracy theory. Chelsey Marie Smith is of a different opinion.

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Governor-elect @JBPritzker wants to legalize recreational marijuana in Illinois almost immediately after being sworn in next year. He also said he will look at vacating arrest records for those who have been convicted of crimes involving marijuana. https://t.co/NESIbgSgU1 pic.twitter.com/qM889uy405 — FOX 32 News (@fox32news) November 7, 2018 Notice the funny smirk on his face when…

I thought this was some clever wording. And true.     Consider this: a dead pimp running as a Trump Republican in Nevada won. Ouch.     It is little things like that which brighten otherwise dark days.

Where it comes to the war on drugs — especially marijuana — it seems that Republicans just don’t understand. (Read it and, if you’re a Republican, weep.) For the mega-umpteenth time, I think the R’s need to back off from issues involving Americans’ personal freedoms Laura Ingraham (carrying on at Fox as I write this)…

And just as I had planned. Straight Republican except for (D) Pritzker for Governor because legalizing recreational cannabis is a priority for him. The legislature is already working on a bill. First off, the State needs the money. Second – reducing the size of the police forces is a necessity. The State is broke. I’m…

The Mexican Supreme Court has struck down cannabis prohibition. The move comes as the nation’s incoming presidential administration has been considering legalization. Earlier this month, designated members of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s future cabinet discussed legalizing cannabis with Canadian government officials on a trip to that county, which ended prohibition of the drug this…

Why Lee lost at Gettysburg. Trump has the same problem. Not all the people he has appointed put his agenda first. A lot of them have agendas of their own. The video is long at 30+ minutes. And worth it. ( About 32 minutes )

( About 16 1/2 minutes ) Back in the 1940s they were called Zombies. ( About 30 seconds )

( About 30 minutes ) The Bob Hope segment is one of my favorites. ( About 55 seconds in ) You can find more videos like this at Intellectual Froglegs.

( About 10 ans 1/2 minutes ) They created the very world he feared. Free speech is a safety valve. You shut it down and eventually the pressure builds up and the boiler explodes. Doesn’t anyone remember the lessons of 1776? I talk to these friends of German Socialism all the time on the net.…

My favorite book on Vietnam is: The Politics of Heroin, CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred McCoy.